Fate/Stay Night and Type-Moon fans: I'm playing a bit fast and loose with the Fate/Stay Night continuity, but I'll try to stay as close as I can while being consistent. I'm working mostly off of information from the anime. This takes place part way through the Fate/Stay Night story.

This is post-failed wedding in the Ranma continuity.

I don't own any of these characters, and I'm doing this for fun. Ranma 1/2 and Fate/Stay Night are owned by their respective owners and licensed by their licensors.

Violator: Prologue

When Akane Tendo walked home from Furinkan High early in the afternoon, she was expecting something weird to happen. She figured that this was a side effect of living in Nerima, but this feeling was fairly different. This was the feeling a student gets when he doesn't do his homework and thinks the teacher is going to give a pop quiz, or the feeling teenagers get when they have been out past their curfew and they think their parents are waiting.

Most people, Akane figured, want to ignore those feelings. She tended not to, since a habit like that could put her at risk.

In fact, whenever she got that feeling, she started walking home faster.

Akane wasn't disappointed when she arrived. Her father, Soun, was waiting for her with the semi-serious smile that he always used whenever he had a plan to get her married. Unfortunately for him, the plans never worked. There were too many outside influences - Cologne and the Chinese Amazons, Kodachi Kuno, and Ukyo Kuonji - let alone herself and her recalcitrant fiance to let them work.

She bit back some anger at her father when he started rambling about how she would do an excellent job of representing the family school of martial arts to the rest of the world at some unknown tournament in Fuyuki City. Tournaments of that scale take months of training to prepare, and there was no way she was ready for something like this in such short notice. She did practise daily, but the fights with the other girls that she found herself in once a week weren't very well suited for tournament situations.

Since school was now out for the summer, Akane was looking forward to just being out of school for a while and spending time with her friends. It was her chance to take a break and would keep her away from the various perverts at school, her crazy teacher Ninomiya, and the idiots who kept drooling over her fiance.

Akane heavily considered making excuses to not go the tournament, saying that she didn't need to go and she wasn't ready. At the very least, she didn't register, and tournaments like this probably didn't allow contestants to register at the door. Also, she didn't have any place to stay or friends in the area.

It didn't work. Her father - or rather, her sister - had already taken care of that. Her father continued rambling and handed her a train ticket, her registration, and contact information for a hotel for her to stay. She guessed that it wouldn't be too bad, since she'd be on her own until she realised that she actually had two sets of tickets and registration information.

Ranma was going to the tournament with her.

So that's why he was grinning so much, she thought. Akane didn't have to try hard to come up with a guess on what he was trying to do: make them spend a few nights together in the same room in the same bed. Hopefully, by the time they return they'll go straight to the altar. It was a simple plan, but it wouldn't work. The right people would find out about this, and it would all come crashing down at someone's expense. Then she would get angry and the cycle would continue. It also doesn't help that love doesn't come in a few days of sleeping in the same bed. It takes months and years of getting to know someone, and spending time together.

It also didn't help that Ranma was also a pompous jerk.

On the other hand, she supposed that he might have a few redeeming qualities; enough for her to have developed feelings for him. She just couldn't put it together. When they were together on their own and she was able to keep herself in check, things would go well. If someone else was there though, someone or something would set them at each other and a mallet would probably get used. At the end of the day she'd hate herself for continuing the cycle, and the problem would get worse.

Then again, maybe this time could be different.

When Akane realised this, she made up her mind. A few days wouldn't make them fall in love, but it could help them find out if they were even compatible. A few days could even move them from "fighting regularly" to "starting to date". If she did well at this tournament, things potentially got better. It could change the way everyone looked at her: Ranma's parents would have a newfound respect for her, and the other girls who want Ranma for themselves will have to think again about how they approach him. Attacking someone's girlfriend is not a good way to ask them for a date.

It would definitely change the way he looked at her.

In the end, Akane boarded a train with her fiance to the tournament in some far off place called Fuyuki City, checked into the hotel - thankfully, it was not a love hotel, but it did have only one bed - and successfully registered at the tournament with a feeling.

This could actually work.

- - - - - -

Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes, the bear gets you.

It was an old saying, but it didn't provide any comfort. All it was good for, she thought, was a quick synopsis of the situation, and that didn't provide any help to her either.

What she needed was a solution.

As she ran down the street, that proverb was all she could think about, a pearl of wisdom that seemed to be floating in her mind, reminding her that she made a mistake. She thought she had covered all her bases. She had checked and double-checked her plans, and thought that she had listed all the risks while positioning herself to minimize their effect on her.

Normally, she thought, she had covered herself well. So well, in fact that she was quite proud of herself when it came to her planning and she put some effort into not letting her ego inflate too much. When her plan backfired, she was on the receiving end of a double cross, and was literally running away for her life.

Her Servant was injured but able to get away. He would spend a lot of time recovering from this, especially since he had to put himself on the line to get her supposedly well-covered ass out of a bad situation. He vanished into his spirit form on her orders once they were out of immediate harm, but she had a long way to go to get home.

She hoped she wasn't being followed. She was exhausted, bleeding, and attracting attention to herself.

If the bear caught up to her now, even if she summoned her Servant to her side, she wouldn't last very long.